Everyone knows the Wright Brothers spent some quality time in North Carolina and Ohio. But few people know they spent an important semester in Alabama. In 1910, Wilbur came South, looking for a place to start the nation’s first civilian flying school. In January of 1910, the Wrights’ patents had grounded all airplanes in the… Continue reading Author of book on Wright Brothers' flight school will speak also at YOUR event
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Showing up for life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
By Bill Gates Sr. and Mary Ann Mackin Publisher: Broadway Books, The Crown Publishing Group ISBN – 978-0-385-52701-9 Whether you are a Microsoft basher or a Microsoft lover, a book describing the growing up of Bill Gates is of interest. There have been many words written about the subject but this is the first time… Continue reading Showing up for life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
By Bill McKibben Publisher: Times Books ISBN: 978-0805090567 Although the recent disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano was not connected to global warming as such, it did demonstrate to all who cared to stop and consider the event just what nature in a bad mood can do to our way of living. Although aviation was… Continue reading Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
EUROCONTROL ATM Lexicon – A single point of access to validated ATM terminology
The EUROCONTROL ATM Lexicon offers the whole aeronautical community single access to a terminology tool containing ATM-related terms and their validated definitions. Based on a semantic MediaWiki platform, it also provides an environment where experts can make their own contributions and discuss new concepts and definitions. “One sky – one term“ is what EUROCONTROL is… Continue reading EUROCONTROL ATM Lexicon – A single point of access to validated ATM terminology
The Pocket Weather Forecaster
By Simon James Keeling Publisher: Simon Keeling ISBN-13: 978-0955628016 In the Pocket Weather Forecaster – How to identify clouds and the weather the foretell, television weather broadcaster Dr. Simon Keeling brings the flying community an essential reference work that is easy to read and which provides new insights even for seasoned pilots and weather enthusiasts.… Continue reading The Pocket Weather Forecaster
Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) Manual from ICAO now available
ICAO has made available an unedited, advance version of the Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) Manual as approved, in principle, by the Secretary General. Although the final, edited version may still undergo editorial alterations, the substance should stay the same. The purpose of this Manual is to provide guidance and harmonize the development and implementation of… Continue reading Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) Manual from ICAO now available
Latest edition of SITA's "Air Traffic Management Highlights" now available
The latest edition of SITA’s newsletter, Air Traffic Management Highlights, dedicated to the ATM community is now available. In this publication, you will learn more about two major initiatives undertaken by our industry in 2009: • The Data Link Services Implementation Rule adoption by the European Commission and • SITA’s selection by EUROCONTROL to deliver… Continue reading Latest edition of SITA's "Air Traffic Management Highlights" now available
747
By Joe Sutter with Jay Spenser Publisher: Smithsonian Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088241-9 For some time now we could read a lot about the development problems afflicting the latest big aircraft types. Just think of the Airbus A380, the 787 or the A400M military transport. Proud projects yet they started life with what appears to be more… Continue reading 747
Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
By Julie Hedgepeth Williams Publisher: NewSouth Books ISBN-13: 978-1588381682 When stepping aboard an aircraft these days, few passengers spare a thought to the many visionary people who have made the wonder of safe and affordable air travel possible. Even giants like Orville and Wilbur Wright are fading in people’s memories. Stretching the matter a bit… Continue reading Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
Glossary of Air Traffic Management terms and definitions
Ever since my first tentative steps into the world of ICAO provisions and the hard learned lessons about the need to use terminology properly even to a fault, I had this thing about texts that were lax and inconsistent in terminology use. To put it bluntly, I hated them. Not only do they fail to… Continue reading Glossary of Air Traffic Management terms and definitions